Replacing Xml Text Using Stringregexp

[oholdeno]

If I need to replace the following exact text:

<Image PostProcess="keep">\S*</Image>

with say, a blank space

how would I do it?

What I put between the tags is supposed to mean '0 or more non-whitespace characters' in regular expression language.

I'm having trouble with the quotation marks around the word 'keep'.

[SmOke_N]

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23627

It's also in the current release beta help file.

[seandisanti]

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=23627

It's also in the current release beta help file.

i need to update my beta again. blah. that's cool that it made it to the help file.

[oholdeno]

it doesn't say much about escaping special characters

also can someone clear up what the '?' does after a repeating pattern?

[herewasplato]

You might want to read Valik and Dale in this thread:

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.ph...ndpost&p=107753

and then

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=19848

hope this helps

[Stumpii]

? after a repeating pattern will find the smallest match instead of the largest. This is in the help file (though the help file sucks for most everthing else to do with regex).

Search the web for regular expressions and you will find alot. 90% is the same whatever library you are using.

[billmez]

If I need to replace the following exact text:

<Image PostProcess="keep">\S*</Image>

with say, a blank space

how would I do it?

What I put between the tags is supposed to mean '0 or more non-whitespace characters' in regular expression language.

I'm having trouble with the quotation marks around the word 'keep'.

Though not entirely familiar with AutoIT regex, in others if you are using regex to match or replace you need to escape special characters that would mean \" in the match side for quotes and \\S\* for the middle. If you are telling regex to match \ and * both are special characters and need to be escaped using a \.

[Stumpii]

Do you want to get rid of the entire string "<Image PostProcess="keep">\S*</Image>", or just the Image info "\S*" ?

A pattern of "<Image PostProcess="keep">(.*)</Image>" will eliminate the \S* text.

A pattern of "(<Image PostProcess=".*">.*</Image>)" will eliminate the complete string, regardless of the the "keep" or "\S*"

Really need more info on what you are doing and why.

Edited March 30, 2006 by Stumpii

[neogia]

Do you want to get rid of the entire string "<Image PostProcess="keep">\S*</Image>", or just the Image info "\S*" ?

A pattern of "<Image PostProcess="keep">(.*)</Image>" will eliminate the \S* text.

A pattern of "(<Image PostProcess=".*">.*</Image>)" will eliminate the complete string, regardless of the the "keep" or "\S*"

Really need more info on what you are doing and why.

Keep in mind that if you have two or more instances of this tag, your second example, Stumpii, will eliminate ALL text between the first and last instance.

<Image PostProcess="keep">\S*</Image>
....
....more XML
....
<Image PostProcess="keep">\S*</Image>

When you replace PostProcess="keep" with PostProcess=".*" , it will match ANY character up to the next double-quote. You need to add a "?", like so: PostProcess=".*?"